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Recommended books by various authors like Joel P Smith, Harry Marra, John Rap, Bert Vreeswijk, Frédéric Gousset, Mike Chapman, Framk Zarnowski and Dale Harder

Jagan Hames won decisively with a career-best score of 8490 points, setting new Australian and Oceania records at the time

The World Records which were officially ratified by the IAAF. Estonian Aleksander Kolmpere was the first official Decathlon’s World Record holder.

In the early days the decathlon was sometimes completed in a single day, but sometimes also spread over three days. The timing situation in each particular case can be worked out from the relevant given dates. Throughout, the ensuing statistics …

Canada’s Damian Warner defeated one of track and field’s oldest records

If Honolulu's Bryan Clay had all his personal-best marks in the same meet, he would break the world decathlon scoring record.

In the early 80s Jürgen Hingsen set three World records with 8741, 8825 and 8832 points

Bruce Jenner was a celebrated American decathlete who won the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics

Daley Thompson is widely regarded as one of the greatest decathletes in history

The World’s best jumper Sander Aae Skotheim broke the European heptathlon record